Hosiery form support



Feb.7,1939. E Wm v 2,145,922

HOSIERY FORM SUPPORT Filed April 8, 1938 I Patented Feb. 7, 1939 HOSIER-Y FORM SUPPORT William J. De Witt, Auburn, N. Y., assignor to Shoe Form 00., Inc., Auburn, N. Y., a corporation of New York Application April 8, 1938, Serial No. 200,849

1 Claim.

1 This invention relates to an improvement'in hosiery form supports, and more particularly to an improvement in a base for supporting a hosiery form, being a further development of the invention disclosed in my copending application Serial No. 166,973, filed October 2, 1937.

The primary object of this invention is to pro- I vide a hollow base for a hosiery form, the base being of transparent material and adapted to contain liquid or other material which serves not only to weight the base and thereby steady the hosiery form, but also to provide with the hosiery on the form a blending or contrasting color effect.

16 A further objectof this invention is to provide such a'base which comprises a hollow transparent standard which is substantially pyramidal and has at the top an opening through which the interior may be filed and a cup-shaped member attached to the side of the standard and adapted to receive and hold the toe of a hosiery form.

' These and other objects appear from a 'consideration of the following description and the disclosure in the accompanying drawing which forms a part thereof, and in which:

' Fig. .1 is a view in side elevation ofa hosiery form base embodying this invention; I Fig. 2 is across-sectional view of such base;

Fig. 3is a cross-sectional view, taken along the line 3-3 in Fig. 1; and I Fig. 4 is a plan view of such base.

The base I 0 comprises a standard I I and a cuplike member I2 mounted thereon. As indicated by a dotted line, the member I2 is adapted to receive and hold the toe of a hosiery form of the type shown in my Patent No. 2,003,707, dated June 4, 1935.

The standard I l is hollow and has substantially the form of a truncated pyramid, having a plu- 4,0fralityof plane panels l5. The open bottom of the standard is normallysealed by a lid l6. At

' the top of the standard is formed an aperture I! through which the interior of the standard may I be" filled with liquid or fluid material by which 45 the base is weighted. A panel at one side of the standard is defined at sides and bottom by. a

bead l8.

The member I2 is similar in contour to a toe portion of the well known type of shoe form and. .50 includes a flange 20 which rests upon and is secured to the bead l8. The member 12 and the panel defined by the bead l8 thus cooperate to form the pocket 2| in which the toe of a hosiery 'formis inserted, as shown in Fig. 1.

One feature of this invention is that the material forming the standard H and member I2 is transparent. The contents of the standard I l are therefore visible as is the toe of the hosiery on the hosiery form. Pleasing effects can there- 5 by be attained by filling the standard with substance which has a color that will blend with or contrast with the color of such hosiery.

The standard may, as set forth above, be filled with liquid or fluid material introduced through 10 the aperture i1. This will presumably be done by the dealer or exhibitor and be changed whenever desired. Another advantage is that the shipping weight of the base is reduced, since it is not necessary that the standard be weighted 16 until the base has arrived at the place where the hosiery is to be displayed.

If desired, however, the lid 16 may be removed and the interior of the standard be provided with any suitable material which will fill all or a part 20 of .the standard. For example, there may be 7 that I am not limited thereto and that other em- 30 bodiments may be made without departing from V the spirit and scope of the invention as set forth in the following claim.

I claim:

A support for a hosiery form comprising in 35 combination a hollow base of transparent material having substantially the form of a truncated pyramid with panels in the sides thereof, and

provided at the top with an aperture through which material may be introduced to weight the base, and a cup-like member of transparent material fixed to the sides of the base and forming with one of the panelsa pocket having an opening at its top above the panels to receive the toe of the hosiery form so as to support the same in an upright position, the panels to the rear and sides of the pocket being shaped so that all parts of the hosiery on the form are clearly visible except the double thickness of the hosiery at the bottom of the toe, the transparency of the base and the pocket blending or contrasting with the hosiery on the form to produce an attractive color effect.

WILLIAM J. DE WITT. 

